20.07.2015

15.07.2015

How did Hacking Team make sure that its Remote Control System (RCS) spyware will remain on targets' computers even if they reinstall their OS, format their hard drives or install a new hard disk? The answer is: by using a UEFI BIOS rootkit.

13.07.2015

The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees' and management's unguarded opinions about various individuals, companies, and institutions around the world.

08.07.2015

Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee about law enforcement's need to have access to increasingly encrypted communications.

07.07.2015

Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies?
A hacker who goes by "Phineas Fisher" claims it was him (her? them?):
The hacker has also previously compromised UK-based Gamma International, another provider that sells their spying wares to governments, and which has also been named an "enemy of the Internet." Phineas Fisher says there will be more similar hacks in the future:
In the meantime, Hacking Team is scrambling to minimize the damage this hack and data leak is doing to the company.

Spotlight

Microsoft Edge, the new browser in Windows 10, represents a significant increase in the security over Internet Explorer. However, there are also new potential threat vectors that arenít present in older versions.

35 percent of employees would sell information on company patents, financial records and customer credit card details if the price was right. This illustrates the growing importance for organizations to deploy data loss prevention strategies.

Sun Tzu's writings have been studied throughout the ages by professional militaries and can used to not only answer the question of whether or not we are in a cyberwar, but how one can fight a cyber-battle.

Infosec consultant Paul Moore came up with a working solution to thwart a type of behavioral profiling. The result is a Chrome extension called Keyboard Privacy, which prevents profiling of users by the way they type by randomizing the rate at which characters reach the DOM.